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Assets out there. and you said its not just like that that they can turn those around and move them in different places. it takes a while. thus the cliche to turn a ship around takes a lot. >> the nuclear submarine from britain can go at about 35 knots but relative to the aircraft that is pretty slow. if you imagine it has to cover 1,000 miles to redeploy to a search area that takes a day and a half. and this is a critical time. the pings are running out. and when they go, these ping locators wi...

Ntsb investigation with a party system, with getting all the people, all the experts from power plants, from everywhere they can, putting them together. thats a great, great thing to happen. i dont know how many people listened to that whole process. but its wonderful to see. and i was also encouraged by the fact that theyre utilizing every aspect of the data making their assumption. lower altitudes, higher altitudes. theyre looking at every aspect. and i was very encouraged by it. >> and im sur...

Im not sure what the inspection is about. i guess it has to do with australian regulations. my concern is if theyre going to the right area with this ship anyhow and the fact that at least theyre doing two different type of searches. theyre looking for debris and theyre looking for the -- >> right. >> -- airplane itself. >> but if you have the six hours delay, thats half day or more of search lost, and we only have six days left, mike, for those batteries. >> youre absolutely right searching for...

Focused on sort of the tactical level activity over the last week, the search, the aircraft, the ping locators. i think id like to go and see conversations at the international level again, looking -- reengaging with inmarsat, just seeing the data is right. what we should be doing is chasing data to corroborate that its gone south. but also, because we dont have enough information to rule out any other options, we need to be looking at data to rule out anything that has gone north or west. >> le...

Our operations is increasing, not decreasing. >> what the families have wanted, obviously, besides getting their family members back, but they have wanted someone to be in charge, someone with authority, someone to give them information. and i think thats exactly what they have gotten. just in this press conference, michael kay. i dont know if you agree. i think this is probably the best information that they have gotten so far. and it also offers them some hope that their loved ones wont be for...

Object it would really be interesting to see how much of a diameter we have here because if it indeed is about that size, maybe that is the first really solid lead weve had in this area. >> how difficult do you think it will be with these ships heading toward that area? weather has been very rough, you know, to actually get to the site and to make a positive identification? >> well, that is going to be tough and the p-8 is probably the best aircraft equipped to do that. it can fly in instrument ...